The final meeting of Moving Beyond was held on 18 June 2016 in Berlin in conjunction with the 20 th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders More Information

Neurodegenerative disorders are the Europe’s largest health care challenge of our century. A focused, intersectoral pooling of all competences available in the field is needed to overcome this societal challenge. It is the objective of Moving Beyond to fulfil the demand for well-educated personnel addressing the needs of both the private and the public sector, and therefore to be fully prepared to meet the increasing demands of the European (scientific) labour market. To achieve this, fellows will not only be trained in a real inter- sectoral, but also inter-disciplinary (scientists, engineers) environment, bringing together a wide range of assessments (from genetics and molecular biology, via behavioural assessment to programming and data analysis). In addition, attention will be paid to entrepreneurial skills and the management of innovation, product development and marketing.

Local Training

PhD project

The scientific training of Moving Beyond will educate the fellows in their specific field of study including the necessary methods and techniques to carry out their research. The vast spectrum of methods and techniques available in the project also provides the basis for a successful interdisciplinary project:

Mutual access to local training programmes

The fellows have continuous information and access to many excellent training courses offered locally by the Moving Beyond partners.

Personal Development plan

Moving Beyond wants the fellows to actively plan their own development, based on their needs, interests and aspirations. Therefore, each fellow has set-up a Personal Development Plan tailored to the individual requirements.

Network-wide training

Secondments

Each fellow will pursue a research project at one of the participating partners. An essential part of each research project fellow is secondment into one or two complementary research groups at partner labs for a period of 1 to 6 months (according to the needs of the projects). The choice of the associated groups will mainly be determined by two factors: (1) needs and gain of the PhD project, and (2) academia-industry transfer of knowledge.

Fellow

Host

Date

Elizabeth Mali

UCL

RUNMC

Feb – July 2015

Yoav Beck

TASMC

Mc Roberts

Sep 2014

Shreyas M. Suryanarayana

KI

Hocoma

July 2014

Janet van Uem

Uni Tübingen

Mc Roberts

Jan – Feb 2014

Pedro Custodio

Motek

RUNMC

Aug 2013 – Jan 2014

Tomislav Pozaic

Bosch

Uni Tuebingen

Dec 2014

Encarna Mico Amigo

McRoberts

Uni Tuebingen

July - Aug 2014

Claudia Stummer

RUNMC

UCL

Oct – Nov 2014

Serena Maggioni

Hocoma

TASMC

Jan 2015

Training weeks

The scientific in-depth training will be complemented by broad-spectrum training in the form of training weeks. These training weeks reflect directly both the work package structure and the intersectoral composition of the consortium. Complementary skill classes are integrated in the training weeks.